tarting the year with a bang. they're releasing their own gun line, this move by the cast of the show symbolizes what we're all about. they're pro-capitalism, pro free market and most importantly pro-constitution, everybody. have a great weekend. hello, everybody. live from washington, with a jam-packed news day on america's news headquarters. >> real bad out here. real bad. >> it's really cold. my hands are fine. i've got good gloves on. >> an arctic blast. get ready for some of the most frigid temperatures in two decades. no relief as the east coast digs out from a deadly winter storm. there's another arctic express on the way. it's a one-two punch with forecasters warning millions of people to brace for another deep freeze. we'll also have the very latest on that heartbreaking battle to keep a young california girl alive. the 13-year-old declared

brain-dead after applications from routine kons il surgery. it hasn't stopped her family from fighting the hospital. the question is, does the government or its institutions have the right to trump the parents and take charge? governor mike huckabee weighs in. plus, baby love. you'll see a double dose of new year's magic with an amazinging story of twins born minutes, yet still years, apart. we'll explain. and we begin with those extreme, dangerous, record-breaking freezing temperatures confronting millions of people across the nation today. with so much of the midwest and northeast still digging out from this week's deadly winter storm, we're now bracing for what one forecaster is calling a polar vortex, which will push cold air from the north pole to the u.s. going as far south as the gulf coast.

let's head now to new york's central park where brian ennis is standing by where people are dealing with the aftermath of that powerful winter storm. >> reporter: well, there's about six inks of snow on the ground right now. the temperatures really will hit about 9 degrees, which felt about negative 2, overnight last night. now, the snow is actually, luckily, for much of the country that light, powdery snow, which isn't good enough for really building snowman in central park. you've got people walking around sort of enjoying as much as they can central park. these are the warmest temperatures people have seen in 36 hours after the snowstorm really dumped up to a foot of snow throughout the midwest, up to two feet of snow in massachusetts, boston seeing about a foot and a half of snow. the snowstorm caused about 16 deaths around the country, mostly due to traffic accidents. now, according to flight aware.com, 8,315 cancellations this week, about 792 flight

cancellations today, which is less than what it has been for the last couple of days. the point is, people are now shoveling out of the snow. luckily, like i said, it's the light stuff, not too heavy. now, ten inches of snow did fall in philadelphia where crews were working all day yesterday to clean up lincoln financial field. that's a big deal for tonight's big nfl playoff game between the eagles and the saints. the temperature there tonight is supposed to be around 20 degrees, and they wanted to make sure they had that field cleaned up. now, while the snowstorm is over for much of the country, the concern now is really about the deep freeze. the national weather service is really warning people that dangerous, dangerous, dangerous freezing temperatures are going to be affecting much of the country starting late tonight and moving into tuesday. we're talking about negative 50 degrees, folks. now, while this is affecting much of minnesota and the

midwest and people in green bay, for instance, it's the kind of freeze that even those used to winters are saying you really need to be careful out there and take precautions. just to give you an example, at negative 50 degrees with windchill, you can get frostbite on any exposed skin in five minutes. that's a serious thing. minneapolis is expecting a high of negative 8 tomorrow because of this deep freeze. green bay, by the way, a high of negative 13, and chicago a high of negative 9. the deep freeze is such a concern that in minneapolis they canceled schools as a precautionary measure. take a listen. >> it is a historic weather pattern we're having, 86 hours of continued subzero freezing with dangerous windchills for our children. >> reporter: again, the freeze a major concern, and for the big game tomorrow night for green bay, they can expect one of the coldest games ever, negative 30 windchill. >> but it's still game on.

brian, thank you very much. well, it's amazing to think we're talking about temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees in store for parts of the midwest to plain states to areas of the mid-atlantic and new england. we have janice dean now tracking it all at the fox weather center. janice? >> hi, uma. yeah, we are talking about dangerous windchills, air temperatures they haven't felt in decades across the midwest. very dangerous, potentially deadly temperatures. people really need to stay aware stay indoors. this is forecast windchill as we go out further in time, today minus 24 is what it feels like in fargo, then it drops. i mean, it really drops. minus 50s in international falls, minus 20 in green bay. we might have one of the coldest nfl games played on sunday in green bay against san francisco. and look at these temperatures. this is air temperatures in the morning monday and tuesday. minus 30, appliance 28 in

international falls, chicago minus 18, minus 14. again, these are incredibly dangerous temperatures. i think a lot of schools will be closed monday and tuesday. then we are also watching this storm system across the plains, the ohio river valley, up towards the interior northeast. we may even get some snow in nashville, tennessee. we will track all of it from the fox news extreme weather center. uma, back to you. and this just in to fox news. former first lady barbara bush is heading home from a houston hospital after being discharged this morning. she released a statement saying she was thankful will for the treatment that allowed her to, quote, get back to george and our dogs as quickly as possible. she was admitted on monday for pneumonia. well, as america prepares to withdraw from afghanistan, there is word that comes to iraqi cities are once again in the hands of al qaeda militants. "the washington post" reporting that al qaeda forces have captured the city of fallujah,

raising their flag over government buildings. other reports are saying that al qaeda militants have also largely taken over the city of ra mahdi. the overrunning of these cities is a big blow to prime minister nuri al malaki who has been struggling to maintain discontent among the sunni minority. well, it's pitting religious beliefs against obamacare. yesterday the federal government asked the supreme court not ato allow roman catholic groups a temporary exemption from the health care law' contraception mandate. the move came just after ajustice sonia soet meier granted a group of denver nuns called the little sisters of the poor a reprieve from the mandate earlier this week. current law requires nuns to sign a form saying they won't provide their employees contra deposition coverage in allowing a third party insurer to do it

instead. a lawyer for little significances of the poor tells m megyn kelly that would violate their religious beliefs. >> they're catholic nuns. they have religious beliefs they live by and there's certain things they can't do. if the piece of paper is really meaningless, why on earth is the government threatening them with huge fines if they don't sign it? >> now that the court has received the government's filing, it will decide whether to extend the injunction, a decision sotomayor can make on her own or with the other jugss. the family of a 13-year-old girl left brain-dead after a areau teen tonsillectomy is racing against the clock, finally reaching an agreement with the hospital. jahi mcmath's family now has had until tuesday evening to move jahi to a long-term care facility. her mother has agreed to take responsibility for whatever happens during that transfer. however, the california hospital that is keeping jahi on life support is refusing to fit her with a breathing or feeding tube

that's needed for any kind of transfer. a judge is forcing that hospital to keep the teen on life support until tuesday night. this case continues to draw attention across the nation. it's a gut-wrenching story about decisions families shouldn't have to face. here's the bigger issue. does the government or its stiengss have the right to trump the parents and take charge? joining us is gofrpor mike huckabee. welcome, governor. great to have you here today. >> thank you very much, uma. that ate's exactly the issue we're going to talk about p tonight on my show. bigger than just the single case with jahi, which is big enough, is the pressing issue. whose life is this? does ijahi and her family? or does it belong to the government? or to the hospital? or to the courts and the lawyers? and this is a big case that i hope everybody thinks very seriously about because it could happen to a member of their own family. >> you know, governor, this is

obviously a very complicated situation. do you think, though, that this brings us to a point in our society where the hospital or a court judge could actually decide that some lives have less value and had are expendable? >> i would say god help us when we get to the place where courts and the government starts deciding that some human lives are just not worth anything anymore and the courts make the decision or the hospital staff makes the decision. in direct opposition to the people who know her best, who love her the most, and decide this child is not worth even giving some hope to. i think everybody who's a parent, they have a great deal of empathy for the family. the doctors may come out and say, look, there's nothing we can do, but that doesn't mean there's nothing some doctor isn't willing will to do. i think most of us would give a little bit more grace to this family than we would just put our hands in the hands of a hospital, who i think has acted with some real brutal

indifference when it comes to the sentiments, the feelings of this family, even pushing for them to make the decision to take off the life support just in the very hours before christmas. that just seemed like the most heartless thing this hospital could have done. >> p tha very, very sad story. one we're watching very closely as you are as well. i want to shift gears here for a moment and go to a very disturbing story we brought to you a few moments ago developing out of iraq. i want you to react to what's happening in the city of fallujah, where al qaeda forces have taken control, declaring it an islamic state. it's very xpeting, governor, this was a site where so much u.s. marines died in the bloodiest battle of the iraq war and it's now back in the hands of terrorists. so much for al qaeda being on the run. >> i don't think anybody needs to be bragging and boasting and standing on the pedestal beating their chest and saying, look, we've defeated the terrorists,

we've defeated al qaeda and athey're on the run. they're on the run all right, on the run to put their flag up over places that we walked away from, places that are no longer really in a safe, secure and free place, and you just have to feel sorry for all those families who lost loved ones in places like ramadi and fallujah because it makes one ask, was it all in vain? if no more than a few years and al qaeda is back in charge. >> that's the point, isn't it? we have lost control, it seems, of that area, billions of dollars spent, many lives lost. >> and i think at some point we're goinging to have to understand that we don't defeat terrorism by simply having a few elections in a country. this is a movement. it's not a country. it would be much easier to fight if they had borders. but this is an insidious movement that infiltrates every kind of government, acts without regard to any form of law or simple forms of human decency. and the savagery with which they approach the murder of other

people is one that makes it very hard to defeat. so any illusion that we're winning the war against al qaeda i think we've just seen that at least in places like iraq we really are not. >> this is coming on the heels of concerns over the troop withdrawals that are under way at this point in that part of the world, in afghanistan. where do we go from here? have we simply abandoned that part of the world? >> well, pretty much so. we're going to be pulling out of afghanistan mostly by the end of the year. we'll leave a lot of equipment behind. we'll leave really a lot of blood of americans that has been spilt there. but i'm not sure we ever went in with a clear understanding of what victory was, what it was going to look like when we found it. and unless you clearly define the objective, you end up with this type of operation that leaves everyone frustrated. back in the gulf war of 1991, we knew exactly what the goal was. we met the goal, and we got out. a lot of people said, we should have stayed.

stayed for what? we accomplished what we said. in cases like rauks, afghanistan and also as we've seen in years past in vietnam, we never really defined what the goal was. it wasn't clear. it was oblique. so what we said was we're going to defeat a movement. well, we didn't. you can't. you have to gather it into something that's tangible with results. we failed to do that. it's not the fault solely of the obama administration so let's be clear. this is a bigger issue of american policy as it relates to the middle east. what we need to be doing is making friends with our friends, people like israel with whom there is a natural bond, work with them to keep the countries who do believe in freedom, democracy and liberty free and let's not kid ourselves and think we can export our version of western freedom and liberty to parts of the world where they'll never understand it. >> governor, thank you so much for your insights. i know you have a big show coming up tonight. of course you'll be talking more about the gut-wrenching case involving the 13-year-old and

you're bringing on terry schiavo's brother today. >> bobby shindler, terry schiavo's brother will be here tonight. we'll talk about the implications of this case and why everyone, every american, should care deeply about what happens to that precious little girl jahi. >> absolutely. governor, thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you, uma. >> all the best. we want them to understand that we're not willing to trade our liberty for security, that we think we can have security that we can defend against terrorism. but that doesn't mean that every individual american has to give up their privacy. >> that's senator rand paul who's heading up a class action lawsuit against the obama administration and the national security agency's spying practices. the first of its kind, paul says the question is whether you can have a single warrant apply to millions of people. here's more on this story. >> uma, senator paul, the republican from kentucky, is

putting together now an experienced legal team that includes the former virginia attorney general and basically he's hoping to cut secret courts out of the equation to let the supreme court decide, out in the open, once and for all, if it is constitutional to monitor all americans. >> about six months ago we began this call. we now have several hundred thousand people who want to be part of this suit to say to the government and to the nsa, no, you can't have our records without our permission or without a warrant specific to an individual. so it's kind of an unusual class action suit in the sense that we think everybody in america who has a cell phone would be eligible for this class action suit. >> so that's what senator paul is saying. across the political spectrum, independent senator bernie sanders from vermont is asking some of the same questions now, writing a letter to the nsa chief keith and alexander asking this, has the nsa spied or is the nsa currently spy ong

members of congress or other american elected officials? spying would include gathering met at that data met at that dapt that datt met at that da meta data osh collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business. now, before president obama jetted off to hawaii for his holiday vacation, he promised to take action in reforming the nsa based partly on recommendations from an independent white house panel. >> i'm going to make a pretty definitive statement about all of this in january where i'll be able to say, here are the recommendations we think make sense, here are the ones that we think are promising but still need to be refined further. >> and on friday the doj officially aappealed the decision rule of judge richard leon who found the nsa's practices likely violate the constitution. >> thank you, peter. still ahead, a controversial

"new york times" report says al qaeda was not involved in the benghazi attack that killed four americans putting a group of navy s.e.a.l.s on the offense. we'll talk to one of them who calls that report laughable. secretary of state john kerry shuttling back and forth between the israelis and the palestinians as he tries to nudge them closer to a peace deal. he's made ten trips to that region as secretary of state. what are his chances for success? we will ask the former israeli ambassador to the u.n. that's one of the gifts that god gave me. it's priceless. it's timeless. i can say that it was really a miracle. >> a miracle indeed. twins born just minutes apart, but they'll have different days and years listed on their birth certificates. we will explain when we introduce you to this wonderful family. [ male announcer ] this is betsy.

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welcome back, everybody. welk for the tenth time in his tenure as secretary of state, john kerry is once again in israel attempting, yet again, to

secure peace. at this hour, kerry is meeting with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem. he says they're making progress, but closed-door meetings with both israeli and palestinian leaders have led to leaders from both sides trading very public jabs at each other. joining us with his thoughts on all of this, forper israeli ambassador to the u.n., dan gellerman. welcome, mr. ambassador recently benjamin netanyahu said in his words there's growing doubt in israel that the palestinian s committ eted peace. what's striking is that he made those comments with john kerry at his side. what's your reaction to this? >> well, there is -- there's a great will in israel to make peace and there's great respect for the passion and commitment which secretary kerry is showing. as you said, this is his tenth

visit to the region. i've seen him both in washington and in israel, and when he speaks about it, you can see the passion and the dedication and how much he really wants it. but, you know, as the american leadership has said many times, nobody can want it more than the two sides, and israel indeed does want it, and israel has made concessions in the past and has made very, very painful moves in order to achieve peace. the problem is and the big question is, do the palestinians really want it? you know -- said many years agoing there not be peace until the palestinians learn to love their children more than they hate us. i hope they do, and i hope that they have a leadership today which is willing to be realistic, to be pragmatic, and to accept the plan and proposals of secretary kerry so that we can finally bring this very long

conflict into a very real resolution resolution. >> it's a very complicated situation, but the secretary has said on the record, quote, this is not mission impossible. he says the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make these difficult decisions, and we are close to that time. do you believe that as well? do you feel it is time to make some of those tough choices? >> yes, i believe it is time, and i believe the secretary is right. i mean, i think we are very near. i don't think it's mission impossible. we've made peace with egypt. we've made peace with jordan. we have proved time and time again that when we have an arab leader who wants peace and who we can trust and who has the leadership to bring his people to this decision, we make peace with them. we've evacuated every single inch of egypt in order to make peace with egypt, and we've done the same with jordan. now, you know, we are that close

to making peace, uma. everybody knows the real tragedy is that at the end of the day everybody knows what the final state settlement is going to be. in the meantime, people are getting killed and terror actions are being taken, while everybody knows that if you sit down to the table, you can make peace. and israel has proved time and time again, you know, we are at the moment watching with great anxiety as israel's former prime minister is struggling with his life. over eight years ago he evacuated every single inch of gaza. that was a wonderful opportunity for the palestinians to reach out and make peace with israel. instead, they turned gaza into a terror base and a launching pad for missiles against israel. hopefully today they have leadership which will understand that it is time to recognize israel as a jewish state and live side by side with it in peace p and security. if they do, i assure you they

will find in israel a partner that will go with them a very, very long way. >> mr. ambassador, i know the stakes are quite high. thank you for bringing up ariel sharon. our hearts go out to the israeli people at this critical time and his family. i know he leaves quite a legacy, obviously. >> he does. he leaves a very, very powerful legacy. he was one of israel's greatest heroes, and, in fact, he was a hero of war who at the end of of the day sought peace and was willing to make very far-reaching concessions for it. we are praying for him and for his family. we miss him very much. we hope for the best. >> absolutely. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us with your insights. we will keep close watch as these negotiations continue, sir. well, it' partisan or

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we are back. it's now time for a look at the headlines making news in this hour. snow and frigid temperatures across much of the eastern u.s. being blaimed for at least 16 deaths. people in the hardest hit regions between philadelphia and boston still digging out and bracing for another round of arctic air that forecasters say will bring record breaking cold. there's new information

about the death of actor paul walker. vectkt investigators did not fi any traces of drugs or alcohol in the actor's body or that in the driver, but they did find that the car was going about 100 miles an hour when the driver lost control of the vehicle. and an ohio man proves that you're never too old to fight back. take a look. 90-year-old george hicks chasing off an armed robber at the laundromat that he owns. hicks says he grabbed his gun after the man demanded money and shoved him. police are still looking for that suspect. >> did he take any money? >> no. no. when he shoved me, i jumped up and went for my gun. and i said, i'll blow your [ bleep ] brains out, and he was gone. >> police are looking for the suspect. hicks says he began keeping a gun after he was robbed and beat

up at his laundromat, believe it or not, four years ago. and known for singing the high sweet sounds of music, phil everly be one of the everly brothers has died at the age of 74. the rock 'n' roll pioneer was the young eflt of his harmonious duo. his son says phil everly passed yesterday from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. that's a quick look at some top stories in the fox news flash. well, it's a story that's generated lots of heat following a report in the "new york times" on the benghazi attack that killed four americans. still lots of questions remain. in that times report, it found that there was no connection to al qaeda and says the attack was likely caused by unrest over an anti-islamic video. the author of that piece, david kirk patrick, recently was asked on "meet the press" how he knew

for sure that al qaeda was not involved. >> i think honestly if you asked anybody in the u.s. intelligence business, they would tell you the same thing. >> well, that's what's in dispute at the moment. one of the s.e.a.l.s scott taylor is joaning us now. welcome. great to have you here today. i know that you take great issue with that story, and a lot of folks are saying it cannot be true what's been reported based on the fact that there have been a number of intelligence sources disputing the fact that this was a situation that began with a video. >> let me preface it by saying, if our organization we have former cia folks, of course, who

are still connected with current folks, and that's an extraordinary statement that he just said, that you just played. it's fascinating to me that he just said that. but his conclusions are clearly wrong, and he leaves out the evidence, the teintelligence, tthe ambassad ambassador's cables themselves, the attacks happening in benghazi and in libya prior to that. it's amazing he would write something like that and call that journalism. >> how do you account for the "new york times" spending six months on the story, six months, and coming up with this particular finding, saying there was no tie to al qaeda? >> well, it's hard to account for it, and i'm certainly -- i don't know what the motive was or anything like that. i'm not saying that he didn't do a good -- do some good reporting on the ground there. he certainly got to people that other folks have not, which is certainly applaudable. but it just lacks all the evidence, it lacks intelligence briefings, findings from d.o.d. it's amazing that they would

leave that out and then come to the conclusion, the stark conclusion, that that's what the finding was. and i have to say to the american people that, even with this report, it does nothing to exonerate the failures in our leadership, of president barack obama and secretary hillary clinton, before during and after the events. and quite frankly that's what he should be reporting on and not trying to gloss over the whole thing. >> members of congress for months have been trying to get to the bottom of this, despite the reports that have come out from the government about what happened. in particular, they're still trying to talk to a number of the witnesses who are on the ground there to go over point by point what happened. and several of those witnesses are saying that this clearly appeared to be an attack that was well planned and organized. >> you know, i have to say that anyone that's in the security business or military experience understands this was a premeditated attack. i mean, you had folks scoping out the place for a long time.

you had mortar attacks. i've shot mortars. it's not easy to place a mortar on top of a building without any prior movement of it or get the degrees on point and everything. it's very difficult to do. so it was clearly a premeditated attack. that's what the evidence shows, that they were staking stuff out for a long time. he mentions al qaeda not being involved. intelligence shows that it was. network terrorism, you see folks if you're an al qaeda in yemen you're typically from yemen. if you're from mali you're in mali. if you're from iraq as you talked about in the previous segment most of the fighters are in iraq but they're islamic mill tanlts in al qaeda a. all of that stuff, again, i have to say that does not exonerate secretary clinton for not beefing up the security, for being a no-show when it actually happened, for sending out a press release before two guys died, not requesting help from dod, the president not giving cross-border authority and for our leaders -- american people, we need leaders or a leader who does everything he can to make

sure that we defend our sovereign soil and our people if, god forbid, we're attacked, and that they run to the fight, not a fund-raiser or to get political cover. that's the type of people we need in office. >> scott, certainly this is quite provocative still, and a lot of folks are still digging and trying to get to the bottom of this. we appreciate your insights. keep us posted on what you come up with. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. and the american people know this stinks and gearing to continue to pursue it. a union divided. boeing workers forced to make a tough decision, take a cut in benefits or possibly lose their jobs. the vote was close. up next, find out if union members are willing to stand up to their bosses. your rheumatologist about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain.

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welcome back, everybody. a high stakes vote as boeing production workers in washington state faced a tough choice, concede some of the union benefits or risk losing their jobs to another state. in the end, boeing machinists approving a contract that would concede some pension and health care benefits, but it leaves their jobs in place. local union leaders were overruled by the national organization which insisted that a vote be taken on the matter. turning now to more news on the economy, and with the new

year comes news that we are inching towards an improved jobs outlook and a prediction from the outgoing federal reserve chairman ben bernanke saying the u.s. will have stronger economic growth in 2014 because he believes incomes are improving. however, a newly released associated press and the center for public affairs research paints a very different forecast. it seems that a majority of americans expect life to go downhill until the year 2050. joining us now, well-known economist art lapper joining us with more on where we are headed. art, great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, uma. let me say that this show today has been just absolutely spectacular. the variety, the depth, clarity. it's amazing. great job. >> thank you. i really appreciate that, sir. this poll says 54% of folks in this country are pretty mississippi tick, this despite reports that things are looking better when it comes to the economy and jobs. what's your reaction to how

people are feelingight now? >> well, i think those people are going to be wrongnd ai think we're going to make them a lot happier than they feel right today. in fact, their expectations will be raised substantial. we're going to have a big political change that's going to change the structure of the u.s. economy. but don't think that the economy today is any good. it's not. but there are a lot of indicators out there, uma, that suggest that in the future, in the near future, it will be improving dramatically. stock market's up. interest rates are up, which is a very big positive sign. there are a lot of things that are looking better into the future. but today's economy, the employment market is terrible, the production market is terrible, the housing market is terrible. but those will change, and they'll change because of politics. >> but it is very interesting that people feel very concerned. >> they should. >> feeling pessimistic about the future. >> it's terrible. >> we still don't know the financial impact obamacare will have on the country or the

economy. do you believe we'll see a push to bail out the insurance companies in an election year? >> the obamacare cannot make it. the very thing that you under governor huckabee, that that poor lady that is brain-dead there, who pays for will all of this? how much is it per day? if it were the family to be kept alive, who could say no to them? you couldn't. but now you have the government, they're going to have to allocate these resources and choose who lives and who dies. that's not what the government is there to do. and with obamacare, frankly, it's gist going to collapse under its own weight. >> but what about the fact that you're goinging to see a push towards bailing out insurance companies if more young people don't sign on? >> well, you might see them trying to bail out insurance companies, but that's not going to work. you're not going to get congress to pass legislation doing that. and if you looked at how large those numbers are, they're huge. you can't give away valuable resources for free and expect

people not to overuse them and not to bankrupt the system. that is exactly what obamacare is. it reminds me so much, uma, of what jimmy carter tried to do with the energy policy in the '70s, an it led to a political collapse of that group and led to reynoonald reagan. that's the same thing that will happen. you'll see a move sharply back to pro growth markets and you'll see the u.s. really do well over the next decade. i'm excited. >> art lafer, always the optimi optimist. great to have you here. >> i hope i'm right on this one. >> me, too. coming up, double the love, double the fun. after the break, the unusual timing of a new year's delivery that is double the joy for one special family.

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♪ you're going to love this next story. bundle of baby joy, born seconds apart but in two different years. the twins, one born december 31st, 2013, her little brother brandon born on january 1st, 2014. i had the opportunity to meet those precious babies and share

the joy with their lucky parents. >> back to that wonderful moment when your babies were about to be born, what was it like for you as 2013 was about to end? >> yeah, it was actually kind of tense moment because i just let her go to the anesthesia step for her and was kind of worried. i was just concentrating on what was going on there. >> so you had no idea obviously that you would be making news for the fact that one of your little ones would be born in 2013 and the other in 2014. >> not at all. i was just completely out of the loop. >> it's quite remarkable and quite fun. what are your thoughts knowing that your babies are born in two different years? >> we are very happy.

very pleased. it is great big emotion. >> how do you plan to celebrate their birthdays going forward? >> yes, that's one thing. i'm going to have two cakes and one champagne. like 11:30, we will blow out the first baby's candles. then at 12:15, we're going to bring out the happy birthday candles for brandon. yes, it's going to be one party. >> for he and his wife, family means everything. now with the birth of his twins, he says it erases a longtime concern that he had for his older son. you see, he didn't want his boy to be alone with no siblings to turn to once warren passes on. >> when somebody asks me, how do you feel, now that you have the

twins? one of my feelings is i was relieved for my son, relieved to final finally, you know, that's for my son, you know, not only one but twice. so that's one of the gifts that god gave me that's priceless, it's timeless, i can say it's really a miracle. >> i know what's also special is you come from peru and you are in this country for many years. this is also helping you fulfill your american dream, is it not? >> it is. to have a decent job and then have a family around me, and i have all the opportunities that this country give us. >> and your two little ones are now american citizens. >> yes. they are american citizens.

and i'm going to give them a very strong moral and religious values that i learn back home. >> that's wonderful. well, congratulation, to the both of you. god bless you both. >> absolutely adorable. born right here in d.c. we'll be right back right after this break. my name is jenny, and i quit smoking with chantix.

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special happy birthday to our audio magic man, and also to my daughter carina, who turns 15 today. make it a great day, and happy new year, everybody. ooh, baby, it's cold outside. >> it sure it. >> welcome to america's news headquarters. >> it's cold outside. we'll stay inside. topping the news this hour, taking on the obama administration. coming up, exclusive new details into senator rand paul's massive class action lawsuit against the white house over the nsa spying program. >> plus, assessing the situation in sochi. what russian authorities are now doing to try to keep our winter olympics safe, following last month's back-to-back terror attacks.